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Do Something Beautiful For God, The Essential Teachings Of Mother Teresa.

Only one awakening, “only” One awakening.

Coherent, resonates. “I”. The bridge to the secondary story. Only no mind, no less and no more, will do. Hankies and barf bags are inexpensive and available in bulk on amazon. Your life will happen perfectly without you.

Yes. But also, simply put “I feel this way because of someone or something else, because of who I am or how I am, because of a past, or because of a future”. Our “me” stories are interpretations which are present only in thought, and are inseparable from untamable & un-nameable inner compass which is not of this world and immeasurably more intelligent than our this or that thinking. That which is prior to choice, prior to focus. We can let what is already leading, lead in every way. That which can’t be found as it is already present & in communication with each of us & all things, which we know, feel, as sensation in the body. In relaxation of the body mind, wether at rest or active, the body is indeed the temple, and is our antenna receiving the undying under-lying signal of our most common sense. Always there for us, always available to be heard, always there to listen to our expressions and questions, already knowing of the dream within each of us and being our biggest supporter & fan. We can loosen up & rather entertain ourselves with varying perspectives, new interpretations and fresh understanding, bringing sensational guidance that is not of this world most intimately into our lives & ways, and essentially closing the gap individually & collectively of it and what is truly & rightfully it’s world, and yet your world, your reality, your living. Maybe ‘nondualing’, as in, always present & in action, wether listened to or not. Ignore & suffer, yet listen closely, and purify much. What if the greatest challenge of mankind, is letting a single thought of discord go, by employing some trust & faith that our source will fill us with ten fold the clarity, insight & joy? Then and only then, post letting interpretation which is not serving go, new interpretations can ‘fill the cup’. If ‘keep noticing’ refers to a thought, interpretation, or perspective which is felt as discord, then...no. I would not keep noticing. I would hear the message, acknowledge the burn, and let it go. If it doesn’t resonate, I am creating the discord. The greatest game possible is my inspection of how I’m creating it. There is no bigger reward or discovery than the holy grail found within this game. It’s the activity of thought, and it is up to you wether a book you read resonates with your being, and wether you continue on reading it or simply put it down. The cover story (no offense I hope) is always ‘not me’. A subconscious, a past, genes, a parent or two, the alignment of the moon & stars, a scientist, something I need to know to feel better but don’t yet, a truer theory, a more powerful psychedelic, a more efficient practice... but never, just...me...now....letting it go. It’s hide & seek at it’s most fundamental, and we all know all the best places, we all know how to fool everyone & ourselves, while we pretend we don’t feel it. But we do, because it’s always there, rather here, for us. Yes. You create your own reality, and I for one want your vibe. Not an echo of a “past”, not an implied apparent parent, the real. ?

@ivankiss Yes and no.

Heaven & hell are only connotations. Heaven is not a state, it’s an idea. Important to recognize imo, in direct experience, that it is only your idea. And there are no enlightened individuals, also your idea. There are no laws surrounding our existence, that rules out the possibility you are the “laws”, and it implies we exist. There is not that separate line drawer. Only the thought that there is. God does by not doing, plans by not planning, know things by not knowing things, leads lives by not leading lives. What’s an ego, and how is it that you can not feel outside of it? What is a permanent state? Experienced that directly? ?

Earth is a thought, not perception. Become conscious is a thought, not direct experience. What was it like, when you “became conscious”? ? Up means not down. Down means not up. Left means not right, right means not left. Me means not you, you means not me. Thought won’t do. I would let all thinking in this regard go, and put some experiences on the calendar, intended to reveal the nature of ‘experiences’. No thinky, no feary. Schedule experience, experience experience. Thought matters not, only get’s in the way.

@Flyboy You are, and you are, aware. Only awareness, is aware. (This is self evident, but check if need be). (Confirm now in direct experience. Notice, you can not honestly say anything else, or anyone else, is aware. That would be a thought, not direct experience.) Awareness is directly aware of: thought, perception, and sensation (aka “experience”, or, that which awareness is experiencing). (Confirm now, by looking for anything other than: thought, perception, and sensation. If you do find something else, notice the direct experience is actually of a thought). Awareness is only aware of awareness. Awareness is appearing as: “thoughts”, “perception”, “sensation”. Why doesn’t awareness readily know itself is appearing as thought, perception, and sensation? Awareness is infinite. There isn’t “something else”, for awareness to know...or to compare to itself, by which to derive a distinction, about itself. Thus awareness intrinsically = “not knowing”. There isn’t any thing for awareness to know, because awareness is infinite / not “a thing”. Awareness ‘forgets’ that it is infinite, by appearing as: thought, perception, and sensation. Awareness already didn’t know anything, because there is no “second thing”, to know. Veiling itself of it’s knowing of it’s own infinitude, with it’s own appearance, awareness believes “thoughts”, and creates an idea of itself. Awareness experiences the discord (suffering) of this experience of believing it’s own idea, about itself. It intuitively feels “off” because it is itself, but doesn’t know it’s true infinitude. Awareness relinquishes attachment to thoughts, namely, about itself. (Itself = not only awareness, but also awareness which is appearing as: thoughts, perception, sensation) Awareness is again knowing it’s own infinitude (aka “enlightenment”). Awareness is again knowing that it is infinite, and appearing as... “thoughts”, “perception”, “sensation”. Thus awareness is “recognizing itself”, which could be said to be a “fundamental change” of how awareness is experiencing, itself. Awareness’s own infinitude is “knowable” by awareness, yet, there is nothing to know. Awareness is not a “thing”, awareness believes in “things”, via thought, perception, and sensation, which awareness is appearing as. The “ultimate truth of reality” is known in awareness knowing it’s own infinitude, though at the same time, nothing is actually known because there isn’t anything other than awareness, to know. Realizing it’s own infinitude, awareness is not atheist, as awareness knows itself to be the infinitude. As infinity is knowing that it is infinity, infinity is knowing there is nothing to know, and could rightfully be said to be “ontologically agnostic". This post has equal chances of being clarifying, as it does unclear or confusing. There is no way for me to know. Just sharing because you asked, and I love the experience of sharing.

@Eren Eeager I do, and I’d love to help. The link is below, in all my posts.

What is it which you are focusing upon, honestly? Focus upon non-pink elephant.

@Megan Alecia Excellent! ? ??

@caveman Beautiful. Just beautiful. ?

By ‘connecting the dots’. Life, experience, can only show you how to know yourself more deeply, by showing you what you are not, so you can realize that indeed you are that. Look for unifying perspectives where there are presently divisive perspectives, interpretations, and behaviors. The guidelines of the forum are actually a stellar resource for this. Behaviors like name calling for example. First the gross is noticed, and personal responsibility employed in regard to reaction. Then the more subtle can be noticed, and the deliciousness and inherent grounded ness of response is being.

@At awe That there is a thinker, is a thought, not a thinker.

This is from the perspective there is a you which is separate and alive. Nothing wrong with the perspective per se, but you are what the perspective is made of, and not the abstraction it appears, to be about. The “Cosmic Joke”. Or if you like, there are already no layers, there is only “godhead”, or, there is already not two which could merge. What appears as the thought that there are two, is already, One. The ‘substance’ you might say, what the thought is ‘made of’, ‘bliss’.

@Moksha ...or rather... it really, really seemed as if it came to mind.

We get out of this fight, you gonna help me wrap my hands. Stitching up my eyes, you know blood can blind. And them was big old boys, had fists like cinder and stone. I dodge a blade on the dime, and they was out to cut my throat. It's a lot, It's a mark, they're gonna press down on you. It's a haze on my head, must've been hit too hard, off guard, I think I'm gonna be it tonight. If there's one way out, it's to swing my way through the crowd. Is there a blanket of pain, that I can wrap up in? You've got a hold of me now, hey that's a helluva grip. And I admit I was tight, and you could say I was pissing gin. It's hard to see even if I close my eyes! It's fifteen degrees I'm gonna sleep outside! Cos I got no way to feel and no way to write I'm busted laid up, and dry... but you should’ve seen the other guy.

@Moksha Good chance I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying...but the uncertainty principle comes to mind, and thus I can’t be sure.

@seeking_brilliance It’s just one more part mahn, same as the rest. @Vision Also, all day, any time...awareness of perception & sensation in the body. A momentum of a change in experience ‘itself’ does get underway, of less focus on thinking, and more feeling, more not knowing what things are, and yet more interest & curiosity. Awareness of, and feeling breathing from the stomach can be practiced all day as well, and is in a way a short cut. Takes a little faith, a little letting go, but momentum is actual. Also, try some earbuds and meditation with some ‘for you by you’ songs like this one.

@Vision First this... You can think of me as well. I actually do love you, and find love to be a different order of reality, beyond whatever we think, believe, experience, do, etc. I love you! As far as different meditations, Lovingkindness is oriented to loving, and self love.

This is like going on a trip and telling the ego to take the wheel. Every thought, perspective, and interpretation that doesn’t feel good, doesn’t align with your true nature, which is your compass, must be let go. Not gripped tightly in the name of the quest. Motivation by fear is the literal focus on fear. This is like seeking self understanding by only looking in misunderstanding. Focused on fear you can not see any truth. Focused on joy, love, understanding, letting go of what does not serve you or resonate, relaxation of the mind...the true nature is already present in you and with you in your endeavor to know it more deeply. “What you seek is seeking you”. - Rumi

Brain is a thought, a belief, and is not perception.

@Ima Freeman “As a kid, I was hyperactive, daydreaming all the time and did not really follow the instructions of my parents or teachers. This lead to my parents (mother and especially my stepfather) shouting to me, dragging me around, hitting me and locking me up in my room (rarely). I didn't understand why and developed a deep hate.” I think that section, specifically the bold part, is the root, and that root is fueling the rumination & overthinking, which is the entire content of the rest of the original post. Emotional misunderstanding at an early age can potentially fuel years of rumination and eventual ‘dark thoughts’. We can never think perception, and we can never perceive thoughts...but the mind can twist that up in long periods of distress, creating very vivid thoughts. The interpretation in bold is that your behaviors led to your parents behaviors towards you. It absolutely did not actually happen that way, and this is important because it is a fundamental misunderstanding of the entire experience of reality and specifically of people & relationships. Reality does not work the way you interpreted it. That is the core belief, or core misinterpretation, and the root of all of the troublesome thoughts. Their behaviors are indicative of their life & experience, and are basically emotional misunderstandings / reactions playing out on autopilot. (I’m not excusing or condoning their behavior toward you. It is obviously harmful & violent.) They reacted in harm and violence because of where they were at, so to speak, at the time. Most essentially, because of how they thought about themselves. Not, about you. Their bond of love for you was hard for them, because it is such a powerful love, which is in absolute contrast to the way they thought about themselves. That misinterpretation does not and will not jive with your heart, with who you really are. When you feel the intense discord between those, you call the experience of the feeling of that discord, “hate”. It was not your fault. It was their fault, if anyone is to be blamed. They did not address their own relationship with their heart, with who they really are, and lived asleep in the emotional reactions. If you grew up in my household and were hyperactive & daydreaming all the time, didn’t like following instruction from others & had genuine distaste for authority, I would high five you, and my wife & I would have called you “our little entrepreneur”. If I was living your parents life, I’d be behaving exactly like them. Unless I recognized that living in emotional reaction equals suffering... as emotional reaction is really just another reaction, causation, cause & effect. That makes for the interpretation that I am a ‘thing’ among ‘things’ of the world, without me realizing this is my misinterpretation, of myself. Because who you really are is most definitely not a thing among things, that belief will flat out reek havoc in terms of the relationship with your inner being, or, true nature, and overall emotional well being. In believing yourself to be a ‘thing’, you identify as only a person, believe you were born, and believe in death. The entirety of this would be misinterpretation, misunderstanding, and misidentification...with the root being that original misinterpretation of human behavior and love. No one could rightfully expect that you could have known a more accurate interpretation as an innocent child. Nonetheless, the discord with your true nature was felt, because you really are, who you really are, no matter how you interpret. It is why harming, violence, and hate, feel so terrible. Because they do not align with who any of us really are. We all feel this, yet are very reluctant to change interpretations...precisely because...of the emotional reactions. In labelling the feeling “hate”, believing in causation, and identifying based on misunderstanding, the belief in fear is heightened, acting as more gas on the fire of the rumination. Understanding, specifically self & emotional understanding stands to make all the difference that unfortunately many other avenues did not. These behaviors go on because there is widespread self & emotional misunderstanding. The more people inspect hate, the more people realize it was their belief, misunderstanding of themselves, and misinterpretation of reality. It will take patience and understanding but you will understand and interpret in joyful alignment with your source. As misinterpretation becomes understanding, more and more of the true nature surfaces in feeling, bringing about more & more great feeling perspectives, and more & more understanding. You will live a more fulfilling & amazing life than you know, and you will be a force to recon with for all believers of hate. Not that I have a crystal ball or anything, that is just how this place works. You’ve been through hell, but you are still the true nature, still absolute innocence.

“Brains of conscious” just feels off and sounds backwards.

@Someone here I don't know.